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FooDiva’s top Dubai restaurants: a 2021 guide
Share your commentsOn the back of my new editorial policy to only profile homegrown restaurants, this year’s FooDiva guide to top restaurants in Dubai proudly celebrates SOLELY independent...
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Unlicensed to thrill at Lana Lusa
4 commentsLana Lusa is a new homegrown Dubai restaurant from the team behind La Cantine du Faubourg and Ninive, paying serious homage to the Portuguese owner, Jessica Viveiro. Set in Jumeirah’s Wasl...
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Does Grove Road reimagine the classics?
Share your commentsThe latest concept by the Bystro team, Grove Road at The Pointe West on Palm Jumeirah promises Melbourne-inspired, fresh, flavourful and fuss-free fare with full views of the world's largest...
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Meet Daniel Boulud in Dubai
Share your commentsI first interviewed chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud in the Cayman Islands for Ritz-Carlton’s annual Cayman Cookout beach bash in 2014. Digging out my interviews for FooDiva and, separately, for...
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The Pangolin: it’s not all in the name
Share your commentsThe Pangolin. This scaly anteater, which looks like a giant moving artichoke, has purported trafficking links to the origins of Covid-19. It also happens to be Sergio Lopez’ (ex-Tom & Serg) new dining...
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Restaurant reviewing and new homegrown openings
Share your commentsYou may have noticed over the last few years that my guest reviewers and I have very much concentrated on reviewing homegrown restaurants in Dubai for FooDiva. That direction morphed...
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Last supper requests from the Dubai food media community
Share your commentsWhat would you request as your hypothetical last supper? Alongside desert island dishes, every now and again someone asks me this question. A little morbid...
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Travel the world this summer with these Dubai restaurants
Share your commentsThanks to ever-changing travel protocol and a drop in disposable income, many residents are choosing to stay put this summer. To appease that longing for a...
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Dining out after the Covid-19 lockdown. Plus a few tips.
Share your commentsI’ll let you in to a little secret. The first few days of our Dubai restaurant lockdown were a welcome relief for me. I no longer HAD to dine out. Given prior, I...
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